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• Texas Judge Rebuffs Mexico's Lawyer, Sets Execution Date in Consular Access Treaty Case

  Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 6:05 AM by Diane Marie Amann
  
  
  
  Harris County, Texas, Judge Caprice Cosper has set Aug. 5 as the date for execution of José Ernesto Medellín, whose bid for relief the U.S. Supreme Court rejected in a 6-3 decision issued at the end of March. At issue in Medellín v. Texas was Article Read More...
  Filed under: John Paul Stevens, capital punishment, Stephen G. Breyer, Sandra Babcock, International Court of Justice, Donald Donovan, Caprice Cosper, John G. Roberts Jr., Vienna Convention on Consular Relations

• SCOTUS hits primetime . . .

  Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:06 AM by Dahlia Lithwick
  
  
  
  Anyone happen to catch ABC’s Boston Legal last night? I’ve never watched the show, but somehow found myself gaping through an episode in which James Spader argues what turned out to be last week’s Louisiana capital rape case before an astoundingly good Read More...
  Filed under: Supreme Court, capital punishment, rape

• Maybe Death Really Is Different . . .

  Posted Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:58 AM by Dahlia Lithwick
  
  
  
  One of the most interesting aspects of the fractured opinions in yesterday’s Baze v. Rees decision on lethal injections is that they almost read like an elaborate MMPI result. Some are almost stunning for how much individual judicial temperament and personality Read More...
  Filed under: Supreme Court, capital punishment, 8th Amendment

• No Time for Revival

  Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:10 AM by Diane Marie Amann
  
  
  
  Does the cruel-and-unusual punishments clause of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbid execution for crimes that do not result in the death of the victim? That's a wide-angle framing of the question on which the Supreme Court's set to hear Read More...
  Filed under: John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court, capital punishment, proportionality, rape, racism, children, pornography, Stuart Banner, 8th Amendment

• Commuted concerns?

  Posted Saturday, March 22, 2008 3:40 PM by Diane Marie Amann
  
  
  
  Benjamin and Emily appear to agree that, as he puts it, "[ t]o the extent the eventual convictions of KSM et al rely on coerced testimony, even indirectly,... the Defense Department should not put them to death ." But should the prospect of execution Read More...
  Filed under: capital punishment, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, exclusionary rule, military commissions, terrorism

• Mukasey, Justice, and Emily

  Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:59 PM by Benjamin Wittes
  
  
  
  Emily’s brief post raises several fascinating questions, which seem to me to warrant fleshing out. The key sentence is the following: “if the government executes these men [the 9/11 plotters] after the coercive interrogation (torture) some of them experienced Read More...
  Filed under: Guantanamo, death penalty, Michael Mukasey, 9/11 plotters, capital punishment

• What Snyder did not say about race

  Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:42 PM by Diane Marie Amann
  
  
  
  by Diane Marie Amann Today the issue of race divided conservatives in America. In Snyder v. Louisiana , the U.S. Supreme Court reversed defendant's capital conviction for murder of his estranged wife on the ground that the exclusion of a single potential Read More...
  Filed under: Supreme Court, Obama, Batson, capital punishment, Snyder, race

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